Europe, Here We Come!

Two articles discussing the election results came out recently that I found rather interesting. One was written by Janet Daley of The Telegraph, and the other is written by Gerri Willis of Fox Business. They both make comparisons between the U.S. and Europe in light of the election results, and they both conclude we are busy trying to become very much like Europe. Here’s Janet Daley:

These women have correctly observed the alarming signal this election sent: We were warned almost nightly on the evening news about the disaster that awaits us if we follow in Europe’s footsteps and we appear to be Hell-bent to go there anyway. Daley concludes that we may yet rediscover our soul as a nation but Willis laments that we’ve lost our way:

So here’s where we are; nearly 200 years after Francis Scott Key penned the national anthem and immortalized the phrase, “Land of the Free.” We’ve become just that, but not in the way we quite expected. We’re the land of the free because an increasing number of us are getting a free ride. That, my friends, is not the American way.

There’s been a lot of suggestions as to what the GOP should do moving forward: They should work to grant amnesty to illegal immigrants, they should become more pro-choice, they should be more conservative, they should be more moderate, they should throw out the RINOs and be more consistent conservatives, and so on and so forth. I’m not sure that it matters. A large portion of the electorate at present wants government provided goodies. And everyone knows what party to vote for in order to get them.

We have become “just another declining society”, writes Daley. And we did it while we watched and then imitated a self-destructing Europe. And most of us didn’t seem to care.

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He and his wife Debbie have been married thirty-six years and have four children and ten grandchildren. His passions are politics, history, theology, economics, business, and basketball!

There’s been a lot of suggestions as to what the GOP should do moving forward….I’m not sure that it matters.

The hope of our nation is definitely not in the GOP, or politics even–not by a long shot. It’s in God alone.

A large portion of the electorate at present wants government provided goodies. And everyone knows what party to vote for in order to get them.

Yes, but if the GOP offered a stark contrast to the “big government” of the Democrats, it might be a different story. However, many view Republicans as just a different side of the same counterfeit coin. 😛

We have become “just another declining society”, writes Daley. And we did it while we watched and then imitated a self-destructing Europe. And most of us didn’t seem to care.

There’s a lot of truth to that, but thankfully not all is lost yet. I mean, even in 1992, about 63% of voters chose pro-abortion candidates for President. So, America has been in decline for a good long while. However, if Christians really get their act together–start to humble themselves, and seek God above else and ask Him to turn this nation around–then I think destruction can be averted. But as a stitch in time saves nine, we’d better start threading that needle soon!

Let’s be clear what is meant by Europe. This is not the bumbling British ‘both and’ way of doing. This is mainland Europe with its short history of democracy and long legacy of inquisition and secret police. This is mainland Europe where the ebbing tide of Napoleon’s revolutionary empire left behind the detritus of godlessness.

Let’s also be clear that this is not something new to American life. The seeds of this were sown long ago by Jefferson’s Francophilia. Somewhere, not very far along the way, ‘No Taxation Without Representation’ became ‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity’.